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Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Being Cyberbullied by Gamers
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↳ Thick skin ey. — -
Anthony Albanese wins leaders’ debate (at least according to the audience)
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↳ Hmm. Wonder if there’s yet hope for slightly less fascism. — - From April 8, 2025: Be part of the conversation. Join mind reader’s free community of readers analysing capitalism, technology and social change. Start right now.
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Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’
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↳ Of course they did. Fucking Microsoft. A company on the side of genocide and colonisation from the outset. — -
iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs
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↳ Trump harming American billionaires is fascinating to me. I wonder how long he’ll last after he makes the US a corporate dictatorship. — -
Labor wants to hand bullyboy Trump Australia’s critical minerals. It’s treachery
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↳ Incredible. — - From April 7, 2025: Like what you’re reading? Join mind reader (free) to get fresh critical analysis delivered directly to you. Start right now.
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You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere.
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↳ Global protest needed. Fascism and heat death is our collective future right now. Let’s fight it. — -
LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
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↳ Ah capitalist despots. Never a dull moment in their bullshittery. — -
Build baby, build! But it won’t fix it all
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↳ The problem is they actually don’t want to fix the problem. — -
Myanmar’s internet blackout is costing lives in earthquake-hit areas
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↳ It’s startlingly easy to forget the necessity of the Internet for communications. This is a horrible reminder. — - From April 6, 2025: Be part of the conversation. Join mind reader’s free community of readers analysing capitalism, technology and social change. Start right now.
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U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day
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↳ This is the economy Australia wants to pin all our hopes and dreams on, according to the Labor and Liberal parties. — - From April 5, 2025: Want more analysis like this? Join mind reader (free) to never miss a dispatch. Start right now.
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Fox News removes their Dow ticker as stocks crater from Trump's new tariffs
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↳ Shocker. — -
Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’
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↳ Her email to her co-workers is compelling and damming. Microsoft and every other tech giants appetite for death should be a major talking point. — -
Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens
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↳ Deportation for humanist expression is on the rise and it’s horrifying. Fascism rises. — - From April 4, 2025: Be part of the conversation. Join mind reader’s free community of readers analysing capitalism, technology and social change. Start right now.
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Medical student convicted of raping another student escapes sentence as “He is young and talented”
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↳ We’re not even slightly past this kind of thing. Rape is very much a protected element of “advanced” colonial capitalist nations. — -
Identity, giving a shit and the upcoming federal election
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Today I have some whinges about poverty, ‘Australian’ culture, and some of the deeper socioeconomic possibilities we face in the coming election. This is based on an ongoing stressed ponderance of Australia’s contemporary cultural milieux and the politicisation of identity. There are some myths to dispel here. Australia has a culture. In fact, we are a deeply multicultural country. Prior to British invasion, Australia was made up of more than 250 cultures and unique languages, expressing thousands of different sociocultural patterns and behaviours passed generationally for more than 60,000 years. The arrival of Britain added 10-20 more cultures, and since we’ve had an exponent of different cultures coming and growing, largely while Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have continued to be suppressed and obliterated by genocidal and neocolonial practices. But, all the while, there has been an enduring commit...